Online via Zoom
March 6, 2021 from 9:30AM - 12PM MST
Jung may have rejected art, but the new research paradigm of Arts-Based Research has decided that his The Red Book (2009) is a pioneering text. ABR is the rediscovery and discovery of forms of knowing and new knowledge through art practice. Arts-based research is not art therapy, even though it uses some of same methods of experiential creative work. Rather, arts-based research is a successor to alchemy as a way of knowing and being that sees no split between art and science. Jungian psychology offers the existing literature on arts-based research a language and further skills on its primary ontology of the psychic image, intuition, embodied knowing and collaboration with the universe. In turn, arts-based research shows that Jungian psychotherapy can be done with the world (not just in the consulting room). For ABR produces artefacts that have their own future life and being. This lecture will explore all these questions and give an example of a vital piece of Jungian ABR that has vitality for our times.
Along with Susan Rowland’s presentation of Jung’s art, Renee Cunningham will demonstrate the arts-based approach in sharing the developmental process of the creation of her current book “Archetypal Nonviolence, Jung, King and Culture Through the Eyes of Selma” (Routledge, 2020). She will share and demonstrate the convergence of personal, professional and cultural events as they coagulated alchemically in the production of the book, which synchronistically manifested during this time of tremendous cultural change.
Cost:
$35 Members
$45 Non-Members
Tickets available starting February 13, 2021
Presenter’s Biography
Renee Cunningham, MFT, is a Jungian analyst trained through the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She is a training analyst with the IRSJA (Texas Chapter) and the Chinese American Psychoanalytic Alliance. Renee is a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP) and International Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS). She is a published author and national speaker on various topics of interest in Jungian psychology. Renee has been a practicing therapist for 28 years, and maintains a private practice in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Susan Rowland (PhD) teaches Jungian psychology and the arts at Pacifica Graduate Institute where she is co-Chair of the Engaged Humanities MA and faculty on the doctoral program in Jungian and Archetypal Studies. She has published ten books on Jung, creativity, ecology, gender and the arts and her latest is Jungian Arts-Based Research and The Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico with Joel Weishaus (2020). She was the founding chair of the International Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS). Her own arts-based research practice is writing detective novels.